[R] How to get a matrix by sapply (with strsplit)?

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

> I want a command (last line) that can return a matrix. I'm wondering
> if there is a way to do so.
> 
> g<-function(x) {
>  c(x,x)
> }
> lapply(1:10,g)
> sapply(1:10,g)
> 
> sapply(paste(1:10, 1:10), strsplit, split=' ')# I want a command that
> returns a matrix

I'm not sure what the other lines(but the last) have to do anything, but are you looking for something like this:

do.call(rbind, sapply(paste(1:10, 1:10), strsplit, split=' '))

or:

do.call(cbind, sapply(paste(1:10, 1:10), strsplit, split=' '))

?

-steve

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